1959 in Iraq
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The following lists events that happened during 1959 in Iraq.
Incumbents
- President: Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i
- Abd al-Karim Qasim
Events
March
- March 8 – The Abdul Karim Qasim. al-Shawaaf was killed the next day, and after the insurrection was put down, Qasim ordered the execution of officers suspected of complicity.[1]
- March 24 – Feisel II.[2]
July
- July 14 – In Kirkuk Massacre.[3] On the same day, Iraq became the first Arab nation to appoint a woman to a ministerial post, with Dr. Naziha ad-Dulaimi becoming Minister of Rural Affairs.[4]
May
- May 30 – After the calling off of the 1955 Anglo-Iraqi Agreement, the last British troops in Iraq left peacefully.[5]
August
- August 19 – The
September
- September 20 – General Nadhim Tabaqchali and 12 other Iraqi officers were executed by a firing squad for their role in the March 1959 Mosul Uprising.[7]
October
- October 7 – On Abd al-Karim Qasim was ambushed on his way to the East German embassy. The five man team, led by future Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, killed Qasim's driver and wounded Qasim. One assassin died and Saddam himself was injured, but escaped to farm.[8]
December
- December 18 – Abd al-Karim Qasim declared that the Khūzestān Province of Iran "was part of Iraqi territory". Tensions over the disputed territory finally triggered the Iran–Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988.[9]
Deaths
- march 09 - mosul coup.
- march 09 -Saeb Sabry al-Safi Iraqi officer pilot andl killed during mosul coup
References
- ^ Masʻūd Bārzānī, Mustafa Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement (1931–1961) (Macmillan, 2003), pp. 213–14
- ^ "Iraq Cuts Ties With Baghdad Pact", Oakland Tribune, March 24, 1959, p. 1
- ^ Phebe Marr, The Modern History of Iraq (Westview Press, 2004), p34
- ^ Gabriel Baer, Population and Society in the Arab East (Routledge, 2003), p. 57
- ^ Aryeh Yodfat and Mordechai Abir, In the Direction of the Gulf: The Soviet Union and the Persian Gulf (Routledge, 1977), p. 42
- ^ Amos Jenkins Peaslee, International Governmental Organizations (BRILL, 1979), p. 266
- ^ "The Colonel's Mistake", Time, September 28, 1959; Phebe Marr, The Modern History of Iraq (Westview Press, 2004), pp. 91–92
- ^ Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (Verso, 2002), p. 72
- ^ Farhang Rajaee, The Iran–Iraq War (University Press of Florida, 1993), pp. 111–112